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jazzfishOutside hit thirty degrees Saturday and yesterday, and almost certainly will today. I held out as long as I could but around noonish yesterday I brought up the cold robot. In the middle of May. DO NOT APPROVE.
I am grateful that I have the cold robot and that I can continue to function in stupid summer temperatures. But: it's awkward, it makes it harder for me to get to my porch (not that I'd want to when it's this warm, but still) and harder to get out an expander leaf for the table. More importantly, it's loud. Loud and constant. I get to choose between being having cool air and quiet, and some days it's a tough choice.
I'm growing more and more convinced that the BCIT GIS program is gonna be my way forward. I'm just ... done with tech and with needing to care about what stupid things tech is doing this year. Shortly before they laid me off my ex-company started leaning hard into ChatGPT, which is not a technology I want anything at all to do with. Before that, one of the last projects I was working on at Microstrategy before that layoff involved massive (for 2014) Facebook data-mining. It would be really nice to feel like my work wasn't just enabling terrible people's worst impulses.
Meanwhile I'm still not sleeping through the night, though I can get back to sleep about half the time after waking at fiveish. This morning I had the curious experience of dreaming, being aware that I was dreaming, and feeling my body lying in bed. This didn't make for a terribly restful hour or so of extra sleep but it was interesting for sure. Gonna pick up some melatonin next time I grocery-shop, see if that'll help matters any.
I am grateful that I have the cold robot and that I can continue to function in stupid summer temperatures. But: it's awkward, it makes it harder for me to get to my porch (not that I'd want to when it's this warm, but still) and harder to get out an expander leaf for the table. More importantly, it's loud. Loud and constant. I get to choose between being having cool air and quiet, and some days it's a tough choice.
I'm growing more and more convinced that the BCIT GIS program is gonna be my way forward. I'm just ... done with tech and with needing to care about what stupid things tech is doing this year. Shortly before they laid me off my ex-company started leaning hard into ChatGPT, which is not a technology I want anything at all to do with. Before that, one of the last projects I was working on at Microstrategy before that layoff involved massive (for 2014) Facebook data-mining. It would be really nice to feel like my work wasn't just enabling terrible people's worst impulses.
Meanwhile I'm still not sleeping through the night, though I can get back to sleep about half the time after waking at fiveish. This morning I had the curious experience of dreaming, being aware that I was dreaming, and feeling my body lying in bed. This didn't make for a terribly restful hour or so of extra sleep but it was interesting for sure. Gonna pick up some melatonin next time I grocery-shop, see if that'll help matters any.
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Date: 2023-05-15 11:51 pm (UTC)